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After three years, I have officially left employment with HEB for a new job as a DELL security guard. I'm sent out by a security company to several different office locations all over Austin. The pay is better, the work is better, but the hours kill. Whattaya gonna do? *shrug*
(Also, my new co-workers could tell I had been in retail for too long when I acted really, REALLY excited at small things. "I get to sit down?! And you actually give me a chair?! THAT'S AWESOME!!"
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I'm second shift Wednesdays-Fridays, and third shift Saturday-Sunday. Even with this no longer being retail, I still get bad "customers" that bear mentioning here, though not very much.
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I'm working Gatehouse at one of the locations (Gatehouse is where we log all the trucks that come in and out of the warehouses) and most of the truckers are friendly regulars who playfully taunt at me being new, but are really nice guys. But I have gotten a few who are rude or just...odd.
Offender #1
In order for me to let you in or out of here, I need to see ID. Everybody needs to show me ID. No exceptions. If I do not get an ID from you and put it under my special camera, control WILL call me and my ass will be in a sling. You are not a special snowflake, you need to give me your ID, or I cannot let you in. Why are you even driving if you don't have your ID on you? I don't think your boss will like that.
Offender #2
There is a rule that truckers are not allowed to enter inside of the Gatehouse. If anyone so much as sets a foot inside, I am to instruct them that such behaviour is a no-no. This guy I didn't have a chance to tell, since he kinda blew my mind.
There's a water cooler in each Gatehouse box, along with dispensable paper cups (which I try not to use since they tear and leak every single time) but this trucker got out of his truck, handed me his ID, stepped inside, grabbed a cup, got his water...and poured it down his shirt.
First off, I know I'm new, but isn't it more polite to ask? And...it wasn't even hot that day. It had in fact, been RAINING. Guy didn't even think it was out of the ordinary. WTF?
Offender #3
You were a very loud, very boisterous man who came into the Gatehouse at near 3 in the morning. It was apparently your first time, since you had no ID, no papers, no idea of where the hell you were supposed to be going...and acted like it was my problem.
Also, rumpling my hair and calling me the 'little woman' will get you a death glare and a threat to have you removed from the premises. I don't have to put up with that any more, so don't expect me to.
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And that's all for now! Despite these, I really like my new job.
(Also, my new co-workers could tell I had been in retail for too long when I acted really, REALLY excited at small things. "I get to sit down?! And you actually give me a chair?! THAT'S AWESOME!!"
)I'm second shift Wednesdays-Fridays, and third shift Saturday-Sunday. Even with this no longer being retail, I still get bad "customers" that bear mentioning here, though not very much.
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I'm working Gatehouse at one of the locations (Gatehouse is where we log all the trucks that come in and out of the warehouses) and most of the truckers are friendly regulars who playfully taunt at me being new, but are really nice guys. But I have gotten a few who are rude or just...odd.
Offender #1
In order for me to let you in or out of here, I need to see ID. Everybody needs to show me ID. No exceptions. If I do not get an ID from you and put it under my special camera, control WILL call me and my ass will be in a sling. You are not a special snowflake, you need to give me your ID, or I cannot let you in. Why are you even driving if you don't have your ID on you? I don't think your boss will like that.
Offender #2
There is a rule that truckers are not allowed to enter inside of the Gatehouse. If anyone so much as sets a foot inside, I am to instruct them that such behaviour is a no-no. This guy I didn't have a chance to tell, since he kinda blew my mind.
There's a water cooler in each Gatehouse box, along with dispensable paper cups (which I try not to use since they tear and leak every single time) but this trucker got out of his truck, handed me his ID, stepped inside, grabbed a cup, got his water...and poured it down his shirt.
First off, I know I'm new, but isn't it more polite to ask? And...it wasn't even hot that day. It had in fact, been RAINING. Guy didn't even think it was out of the ordinary. WTF?
Offender #3
You were a very loud, very boisterous man who came into the Gatehouse at near 3 in the morning. It was apparently your first time, since you had no ID, no papers, no idea of where the hell you were supposed to be going...and acted like it was my problem.
Also, rumpling my hair and calling me the 'little woman' will get you a death glare and a threat to have you removed from the premises. I don't have to put up with that any more, so don't expect me to.
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And that's all for now! Despite these, I really like my new job.
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